Lesson Zero: Identifying Goals

[misskat]

So, this is lesson zero: figuring out what you want to get out of this experience. I know that for me, personally, I want to be able to hack on DW, And fix bugs that Support encounters. My primary goal is to become familiar enough with Dreamwidth's code base that I can make that happen.

What are your goals for this project? What do you want to accomplish? Will you hack for DW?

How much experience do you have? Are you familiar with other languages, or will the Perl be your first experience? Have you toyed with the command line before? Where is a good baseline for us to start?

Please comment with your responses, and any other relevant information.


( I apologize for any weirdnesses. I am dictating this via my phone. My hands are aliens.)

Comments

[alexseanchai]

I would kind of like to hack for DW. I'm also interested in making a website that does what this does only with less misusing-Google-Docs flavor to it—I hear Ruby might be better for that than Perl, but I'll work it out.

I used to play with Visual Basic. Long time ago. The command line frightens me in Linux, but I've used it—I just need Very Clear Instructions.